My grandmother feeds her dog cooked chicken legs despite the fact I've told her countless times its dangerious. She gives the dog the complete leg for it to eat and chew. Her dog is only a small border terrier.

So far her dog hasn't had any problems with them but is it likely to?

The long and the short of this is she has been lucky, as you have told her it is not right because she is taking a big risk of him getting a splinter of bone stuck. Would she consider taking the meat off the bones and giving him that or giving it to him raw ? Raw bones are bendy and soft by comparison.

You just can't tell people i walk a dogue de bourdeux for an elderly couple and its vastly overweight and is often suffering from sickness/diarrhea when i said it could lose some weight they weren't very receptive it eats better than i do sometimes you just have to *sigh* and walk away.

So far her dog hasn't had any problems with them but is it likely to?

I can see vets turning pale at that question all over the country. :-)

Cooked chicken bone on the outside is smooth but becomes brittle on the inside and when broken turns into shards of needle like bone. When a dog swallows that it will either be lucky and the shards will not cut throat, stomach, intestines, bowels etc or they will, either a small nick which does no real harm or an unlucky puncture.

Dogs can go for many years with no problems, but the risk is there and it's not a gamble most of us would take.

Raw chicken wings with pliable bone is far more appropriate, or knuckle bones etc sold in pet stores.

my nans dacshund dies by eating a cooked lamb chop bone

There is a long thin very sharp bone in the leg of birds and your Gran. is playing Russian roulette with her pet.

Last year I got a fish bone stuck in my throat, cant tell you how painfull that was, it scrached and caused scaring. It would be alot worse if was the dog!

George used to scavenge KFC bones and fish bones in our delightful London park, once grabbed he would not come back near enough to take it off him though if I shouted leave it before he grabbed it he would leave. He was lucky too, your nan's dog might not be as lucky next time!